Cheesecakes & Specialty Desserts

400 calories, for $3.50 to $4.50.

That scoop of vanilla ice cream adds close to half an Original slice again. On the Original it makes 1,230 calories. Put it beside the Chocolate Tower Truffle Cake and the total reaches 2,170, which only three dishes on the entire menu exceed, the Factory Nachos among them. Egg is listed with milk. That points to a custard base.

I'd put it on the Original, the plainest slice in the case, and nowhere near anything already carrying mousse or frosting.

Three slices in the case contain peanuts: this, the Reese's cake and the Chocolate Caramelicious made with Snickers. This is the lightest of them, at 1,250 calories.

Creamy cheesecake is swirled with caramel, peanut butter, chopped Butterfinger and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and the Butterfinger is the part I'd order it for, because its flaky, brittle centre stays crisp against soft filling in a way a peanut butter cup can't.

750 mg of sodium. 94 grams of sugar. It's sweet and salty at once.

$9.95 at the low end. That's exactly what an Original slice costs.

What you get for it is the lightest thing in the dessert section on calories, fat, carbs and sodium, with 250 calories and 15 mg of salt, and the 15 grams of fat belong to the dairy that comes with it, since milk is listed and strawberries carry next to no fat.

I'd order it for a guest who wants to join dessert without committing. Or order it beside a slice. Strawberries and cheesecake were always going to work.

It's the newest slice in the case, launched on National Cheesecake Day, July 30, 2026, with 25 cents from every slice sold through July 2027 going to Feeding America.

Milk chocolate and white chocolate cheesecake are swirled together over a toffee brownie, with Hershey's ganache, mousse and pieces of Heath bar on top. Heath is a Hershey brand, and its toffee contains almonds, which is the likeliest reason tree nuts appear on the allergen list.

1,500 calories. Only seven slices in the case are heavier. Of the chocolate slices, it's the one I'd pick for texture, because the brownie base crunches where the Godiva stays soft all the way down.

Turtle means chocolate, caramel and pecans together, and this cake uses all three in quantity — a pecan brownie base, caramel and fudge swirled through the filling, candied pecans and chocolate on top.

Tree nuts. Obviously, given the name, but it's worth saying for anyone ordering on behalf of someone else. 1,300 calories, 88 grams of fat, and only 450 mg of sodium, which is low for a cake this heavily built. If you want caramel without nuts, the Salted Caramel is the swap.

1,720 calories and 122 grams of fat make this the second-heaviest dessert on the menu, behind only the Chocolate Tower Truffle Cake.

Tree nuts are in it too, chopped and pressed around the sides. Carrot cake reads like the sensible choice on a dessert menu. That's exactly why it catches people out on both counts.

Three layers of spiced sponge with cream cheese frosting between them, and it's a good version. Vegetables in a cake don't make it lighter than the chocolate options, and here it's heavier than most of them.

The cross-section is the whole product. Confetti sponge, a pink layer, a pale blue one, more sponge, all under white frosting with sprinkles pressed into the sides — it's built to be looked at before it's eaten, and that's a legitimate thing for a birthday cake to be.

1,380 calories a slice with 98 grams of fat. Cut it cold with a sharp knife. The mousse bands soften at room temperature and smear into one another, and once that happens the layering you paid for is gone.

Mars named Snickers after a favourite horse of the Mars family, and the bar went on sale in 1930. The cheesecake came 90 years later.

Original cheesecake is swirled with Snickers and set on a brownie crust, then finished with chocolate, caramel and peanuts, and the peanuts on top are what keep the caramel from going cloying.

400 mg of sodium, low for a slice this rich. 19 grams of protein, fourth among the 44. Peanuts, obviously.

Two textures in one slice, which is the whole idea. Dense baked chocolate cheesecake underneath, aerated mousse on top, and the contrast is what stops it going heavy the way a solid chocolate cheesecake does. 1,220 calories with 94 grams of fat. That's more fat than the Vanilla Bean and less sugar, because mousse is mostly cream and air rather than more cake.

Eat it cold. Mousse loses its structure fast at room temperature, and a slice left sitting through a long conversation turns into chocolate soup on a base.

1,770 calories. No slice in the dessert case is heavier.

It isn't a cheesecake, and it's the dessert people order when they want the most chocolate the kitchen can put on one plate: fudge cake, chocolate truffle cream and chocolate mousse, six or seven layers high.

192 grams of carbohydrate and 111 grams of fat come with it. Order one for the table. Split three ways, it's 590 calories each, which is a normal dessert.

Tuxedo means black and white, and that's what the slice looks like from the side.

Fudge cake sits at the bottom, then chocolate cheesecake, then mascarpone mousse, then chocolate ganache. Mascarpone is an Italian cream cheese made by adding acid to heavy cream. It's softer and sweeter than the cream cheese in the rest of the slice.

1,250 calories and 90 grams of fat. I'd pick it over the Godiva, because the mousse layer lightens every bite.

Cinnabon opened its first bakery in a mall outside Seattle in 1985, and this slice is built to taste like that smell. Cinnamon cheesecake layered with vanilla crunch cake, cream cheese frosting, a caramel drizzle.

141 grams of carbohydrate.

That's ninth-highest among the 44 slices in the case, and it comes with only 10 grams of protein. The crunch cake is why I'd order it. Soft filling can't give you that texture.

It launched on National Cheesecake Day in July 2021 and stayed on the permanent menu. Four layers show in the slice.

Coconut macaroon crust. A thin layer of chocolate. Coconut cheesecake over vanilla custard, 1,370 calories in all, with shredded coconut around the outside.

Despite the macaroon crust, no tree nuts are listed, which makes it a safer coconut dessert than the Mango Key Lime, whose allergen list does include them.

Ruth Wakefield created the chocolate chip cookie at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, in the late 1930s, and this slice is built on the dough rather than the baked cookie.

Creamy cheesecake is loaded with chocolate chip pecan cookie dough and topped with cookie dough frosting. That's cookie dough twice.

1,550 calories, tied with the S'mores Galore for fourth-heaviest in the case. The pecans are in the dough, so tree nuts are everywhere in it. Split it.

It's the fourth-fattiest slice in the case. 110 grams. Only the Carrot Cake, the Red Velvet and the Chocolate Tower carry more.

Caramel cheesecake sits on a vanilla crust under caramel mousse and a scatter of almond brickle, and the brickle is the only thing on the plate that crunches, which is exactly why it's there.

It also means tree nuts. 1,390 calories and 600 mg of sodium.

The banana on top is real sliced fruit.

Artificial banana flavour leans on a single compound, isoamyl acetate, which is why banana sweets taste like banana sweets and not like the fruit on your counter. Fresh banana doesn't have that sharpness.

Beneath the fruit sits Bavarian cream, then banana cream cheesecake. 1,250 calories, 90 grams of fat. It's the slice for someone who wants cream, not chocolate.

This is the Original with glazed whole strawberries on top, and the fruit costs you 170 calories. Original runs 830. This runs 1,000.

I think that's a fair trade. Plain cheesecake is dense and fatty from the first bite to the last, and a strawberry every forkful brings acid back into it. The glaze keeps the berries whole and shiny rather than sliced and weeping into the cream. 69 grams of fat, 550 mg of sodium. Gluten, wheat, milk, egg and soy.

No dessert in the case is saltier than this one, at 1,140 mg, and that includes the Carrot Cake and Linda's Fudge Cake, which come closest.

That surprised me until I thought about what shortcake is. It's a sweet biscuit. Biscuits rise on baking powder, a sodium compound, and the kitchen bakes its own before topping it with vanilla ice cream, fresh strawberries and whipped cream.

25 grams of protein, the most of any dessert. $13.95, the priciest in the section. The Kids' Strawberry Shortcake is 450 calories; this is 1,340.

No gluten and no wheat. It's the only full-sugar cheesecake in the case that can say that, because the base is flourless chocolate cake rather than a biscuit crust, and if you're coeliac this is the slice that changes the evening for you. Ask the kitchen about shared prep before you rely on it. A recipe without wheat isn't the same as a gluten-free kitchen, and this one isn't dedicated.

260 mg of sodium, the lowest of any cheesecake here. 1,400 calories and 105 grams of fat, so it's rich rather than light — dark chocolate all the way down, and closer to a truffle than a dessert.

Milk chocolate from top to bottom. It's the opposite of the Godiva slice, which is dark and bitter-edged.

Hershey's cheesecake sits between layers of chocolate cake under chocolate frosting, with milk chocolate chips pressed around the outside, and at 135 grams of carbohydrate it's eleventh-highest of the 44 slices in the case.

Order it for a child, or for the adult who finds the Godiva too much. 1,320 calories. 610 mg of sodium.

An add-on, not a dish. 280 calories, 20 grams of fat and 20 mg of sodium, the second-lowest salt figure on the menu after the Bowl of Fresh Strawberries.

Milk and soy are listed. Pour it over a scoop of vanilla ice cream if you want a sundae without the almonds that come on the Hot Fudge Sundae.

Key limes are smaller, more acidic and more floral than the standard Persian limes you get in a supermarket, and that acidity is the entire reason this works. It's the sharpest thing in the dessert case. 1,160 calories, 430 mg of sodium, and a shorter allergen list than most — gluten, wheat, milk and egg, with no soy.

Order it after something heavy. It's the one slice here that resets your palate instead of piling onto what you've already eaten.

73 grams of fat, 21 fewer than the Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake. Meringue is egg white and sugar with no fat at all, so replacing a cream or mousse topping with it moves the numbers more than you'd expect.

1,170 calories, 510 mg of sodium. Lemon curd under torched meringue on cheesecake. The acidity does the same job the key lime does, cutting the richness underneath, and between the two this is the softer, sweeter one.

At 1,040 calories it's lighter than 33 of the 44 slices, and after a pasta dish it's the one I'd order, because citrus reads as a finish where chocolate reads as another course.

Four layers, two fruits. The slice stacks raspberry-vanilla cake, creamy lemon cheesecake, raspberry ladyfingers and lemon mousse. Eat it top to bottom and the mousse goes first.

Sodium is 420 mg, and there are no nuts.

233 grams of carbohydrate, the highest of any dessert on this menu, and the reason is that this isn't a cheesecake at all. It's a layer cake — chocolate sponge, fudge frosting, no cream cheese anywhere.

That shows up in the fat figure too. 66 grams, against 88 for the Vanilla Bean and 94 for the Tiramisu. Less fat, far more sugar. Different dessert entirely, sitting on the same page.

Order it if someone at your table doesn't like cheesecake. There are maybe four things in the case that qualify, and this is the most straightforwardly chocolate of them.

570 calories. No cheesecake in the case is lighter.

There's no added sugar, no gluten listed, and 37 grams of carbohydrate. The texture holds up because the cream cheese is all still there. What changes is the sweetener.

Walnuts are named in the menu's description of the crust, but tree nuts don't appear in the allergen data, so confirm with the kitchen if nuts are a concern.

$1.55 more than the plain slice. 10 more calories. 1 more gram of fiber.

Fresh strawberries bring acidity, and acidity is what this cheesecake needs most, since a filling with no added sugar tastes flatter and a bite of sharp fruit wakes it up.

I'd pay the difference. 580 calories, 7 grams of sugar, and no gluten listed.

Tree nuts are listed on a mango and lime cheesecake.

Nothing in the name warns you. The menu doesn't say which ingredient triggers it, and the coconut macaroon crust isn't a safe guess, because the Coconut Cream Pie Cheesecake also sits on one and lists no tree nuts, so treat this as a nut dessert until the restaurant tells you otherwise. Underneath the mango mousse is sharp key lime cheesecake, and the two cover for each other: sweet and soft on top, acid below.

It runs 1,300 calories with 123 grams of carbohydrate. That's 140 calories more than the plain Key Lime slice, most of it from the mousse.

166 grams of carbohydrate, 36 more than the Salted Caramel, and that's the number that tells you what this actually is — cookie, sugar and mousse stacked on a cheesecake base rather than a cheesecake with cookies in it.

1,510 calories. 93 grams of fat. 800 mg of sodium, which is high for dessert and comes from the cookie crumb.

It's the slice teenagers order and it earns that. Chocolate cookie crust, cookies through the filling, mousse and more cookie on top. There's no restraint anywhere in it, and restraint isn't the point. Two people, one slice. I've watched enough of these get abandoned half-eaten to believe that's the right call.

830 calories, which makes this the lightest slice in the case that isn't the no-sugar-added version. Everything else runs a thousand and up. Graham crust, sour cream on top, nothing else. Whether that reads as boring or as the point depends entirely on you, and I'd argue it's the point — this is the cake the other forty are variations on, and it's the one that shows whether the kitchen can actually make cheesecake.

Gluten, wheat, milk, egg, soy. Sodium's 510 mg.

Auguste Escoffier put peaches and raspberry together in the 1890s for the Australian soprano Nellie Melba, and peach Melba has been the model for the pairing ever since.

This slice follows it. Cheesecake swirled with peaches sits on a vanilla crust under a raspberry drizzle. It launched on July 30, 2025.

Tied with Linda's Fudge Cake at 1,450 calories. No nuts, and 13 grams of protein.

It has nearly double the sugar of the Original slice, 99 grams against 51.

Almost all of the carbohydrate here is sugar, 99 of 109 grams, because an upside-down cake is traditionally baked over butter and brown sugar that caramelise under the fruit, and there are two layers of it. The pineapple cheesecake in the middle is the milder part. I'd eat it for the cake.

1,260 calories and 83 grams of fat put it in the middle of the 44 slices on both counts. No nuts.

Seasonal, roughly September through December, so this is the stretch to order it.

It's spiced like pumpkin pie, with cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. At 1,040 calories it's lighter than most of the case, and pumpkin purée is mostly water, which pulls the figure down against the cream cheese. 79 grams of fat, 500 mg of sodium.

The allergen list is the standard five for this bakery: gluten, wheat, milk, egg and soy.

230 calories more than the plain Pumpkin Cheesecake, which is what a layer of pecan pie costs you.

The slice stacks pumpkin cheesecake on pecan pie and finishes it with caramel and more pecans. It's a Thanksgiving dessert table in one wedge. Both pumpkin cheesecakes come back each fall for a limited run, so there's a window of a few months to order it.

I prefer this one to the plain pumpkin. The pie layer gives it chew. Tree nuts, obviously. 1,270 calories and 90 grams of fat.

Harry Burnett Reese, who had worked on Milton Hershey's dairy farms, started making his peanut butter cups in Hershey, Pennsylvania, in 1928.

Chunks of those cups go into the cheesecake here, between layers of fudge cake and caramel. Next to the Adam's Peanut Butter Cup Fudge Ripple, it's 260 calories heavier with 5 more grams of protein. It's also saltier. 940 mg against 750.

Pick this for the cake layers, the Adam's for candy on top. Peanuts are in both.

If you want caramel and someone at the table has a nut allergy, this is the one. The Dulce de Leche has almond brickle on top and the Caramel Pecan Turtle has pecans throughout; this has neither. The base is blonde brownie rather than crumb, which makes it chewier and helps the slice hold together on the plate. Caramel cheesecake, caramel mousse, salted caramel glaze.

The salt matters more than the name suggests. Caramel without it is just sweet, and at 130 grams of carbohydrate you'd notice. 1,240 calories, 750 mg of sodium.

This isn't cheesecake. It sits on the same menu page as forty-odd cheesecakes, and people order it assuming it's a variation — it's the Italian dessert, layered savoiardi soaked in coffee under whipped mascarpone, and mascarpone is a cream cheese only in the loosest sense.

340 mg of sodium, one of the lowest figures in the dessert case. 1,270 calories and 94 grams of fat, so it isn't light, it's just not salty. The coffee is what stops it cloying. If you've had tiramisu that tasted like sweet cream and nothing else, the biscuits weren't soaked long enough.

980 calories, which makes it one of the lighter slices in the case — most of what surrounds it runs between 1,100 and 1,700.

It's a hybrid rather than either thing done properly. Coffee-soaked sponge under mascarpone cheesecake, so you get the flavour of tiramisu with the density of a baked cake. If you want actual tiramisu, they serve that separately and it's a different dessert.

70 grams of fat, 450 mg of sodium.

The coffee is what earns it. Without it this would be a plain cheesecake with cocoa dusted on top.

The marshmallow is made in-house and torched to order. Sugar starts to caramelise at around 160°C, which is why the top comes out browned and faintly bitter where the flame hits. That bitterness keeps the slice from being unbearably sweet.

Underneath is chocolate cheesecake on a graham crust, with graham crackers on top. 141 grams of carbohydrate and 1,550 calories.

Eat it soon after it arrives, because torched marshmallow sets firm as it cools.

Strawberries, raspberries and blueberries, with a touch of citrus. It joined the permanent menu on July 29, 2024, the day before National Cheesecake Day.

The berries are layered with vanilla cake through the cheesecake, and the slice comes finished with whipped cream, fresh mint and a rim of pink and white chocolate curls, which makes it the best-looking slice to arrive at a birthday table.

1,300 calories. 11 grams of protein. No nuts.

Two desserts on one plate. Red velvet cake and cheesecake alternate in bands, under cream cheese frosting. 1,580 calories.

That's the third-heaviest slice in the case, behind the Chocolate Tower Truffle Cake and the Carrot Cake, and at 116 grams it has more fat than the Chocolate Tower.

The cake layers are lightly cocoa-flavoured rather than properly chocolate. Order it for the cream cheese frosting and the look of the cross-section.

88 grams of fat in the plainest-looking slice in the case. Vanilla reads modest next to the Oreo and the Red Velvet, and it isn't — 1,170 calories puts it in the middle of the pack, not the light end.

Order it anyway if you're the person at the table who wants dessert but doesn't want to negotiate about it. Vanilla is the only flavour nobody argues over. You can see the bean specks through the filling. That's the tell for real vanilla against extract, though most of the flavour comes from the oils infused into the cream rather than the seeds themselves.

Gluten, wheat, milk, egg and soy. Sodium's 480 mg, which for a dessert here is unremarkable.

33 grams of fat, far below most desserts here. The carbs go the other way: 170 grams, third-highest of the 44.

Baked apples with cinnamon sit under a walnut and oat streusel, served warm with vanilla ice cream, so the sugar comes from fruit, streusel and ice cream while the fat stays modest.

Walnuts mean tree nuts. 1,000 calories. It's the dessert I'd order in winter.

Seedless raspberry. It sounds like a small detail and it's the reason this cake has lasted on the menu as long as it has, because raspberry seeds in a smooth cheesecake are gritty and wedge in your teeth.

White chocolate through the filling, the raspberry swirled in rather than sitting on top, and a chocolate cookie crust. 1,220 calories and 89 grams of fat. White chocolate is sweet in a flat, milky way. The raspberry is what gives it an edge, and without it you'd struggle through half a slice.